Betsy Hearne

Beauties and Beasts (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume offers 28 versions of the fable of "Beauty and the Beast", with minimal adaptations from Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and America. Afterwards, the author discusses Disney's film version of this familiar theme of a lonely beast transformed by the magic of human love.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 1993
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313069383
• Artikelnr.: 38210816

Autorenporträt

Betsy Hearne

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgments Rescued Beasts Beauty and the Beast (French) The
Enchanted Tsarevitch (Russian) The Princess and the Pig (Turkish) A Bunch
of Laurel Blooms for a Present (Appalachian) The Small-Tooth Dog (English)
The Fairy Serpent (Chinese) Monkey Son-in-Law (Japanese) The Lizard Husband
(Indonesian) Questing Beauties Cupid and Psyche (Greco-Roman) The Serpent
and the Grape-Grower's Daughter (French) The Singing, Soaring Lark (German)
East of the Sun and West of the Moon (Norwegian) Whitebear Whittington
(Appalachian) The Three Daughters of King O'Hara (Irish) The Black Bull of
Norroway (Scottish) Bull-of-all-the-Land (Jamaican) Prince White Hog
(Missouri French) The Enchanted Prince (Spanish American) The Story of Five
Heads (African) The Ten Serpents (Israeli) Egle, Queen of Serpents
(Lithuanian) Homely Women and Homemade Men Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady
(English) The Laidley Worm of Spindleston Heughs (Scottish) Kemp Owyne
(Scottish) Pinto Smalto (Italian) The Dough Prince (West Virginian) Old Man
Coyote, the Young Man and Two Otter Sisters (Native American) Essays,
Activities, and Resources In the Dark with Disney Activities Some Picture
Book Versions of Beauty and the Beast Sources Bibliography Index